Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar"

TechDirt is reporting that those all-too-familiar "stats" surrounding the cost of piracy are being trotted out in an attempt to push through a new "Copyright Czar" position. "In urging President Bush to sign into law the ProIP bill, which would give him a copyright czar (something the Justice Department had said it doesn't want), the US Chamber of Commerce is claiming that 750,000 American jobs have been lost to piracy. Yet, it doesn't cite where that number comes from."

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Re:Easy

[ScentCone]

If we just hire 750,000 copyright czars, well there ya go. That would be mavericky, you betcha

No, no, no. It's Change. You know, Change We Can Believe In. Well, no, actually. That's FAR too specific. I keep forgetting that Change We Can Believe In only works when you avoid ever saying what it actually is supposed to do, to whom, and at what cost. If you just change the "750,000 copyright czars" to some sort of class-baiting equivalent, you'll get some traction. Let's see... "We need to take back America's Copyright Czar jobs from the Eeevil Corporations that have hired Eeevil Overseas People to do that work (um, please don't listen to this part you overseas workers, OK, since I want to maintain my status as World Candidate and I know I can't have it both ways), and put those Czar jobs back here, where we can raise taxes on them, especially when they die, which is patriotic. Middle class!"

Re:Easy

[ShieldW0lf]

If that were true, Canadians would be the brain dead version of Americans instead of the other way around like it is in the real world.

Of course Americans don't smoke pot. They drink cough syrup. Robo, robo, robo your boat, till your teeth are green...

Stupid fucktard. Yay, it's quitting time... I'm going home to smoke a big fattie.

Re:I don't CARE how hard you work

[cliffski]

well done. every time a jerk like you posts drivel like this, it reinforces the view that anti-copyright campaigners are just idiots.
keep up the good work kid.